GEOG 140 Lecture 12: Geog140Week8Lec.12
Document Summary
Military contracting and the everywhere of war. Today"s outline: trends in armed conflict: from inter to intra-state conflicts, types of wars: greed (resource) versus grievance (identity) conflicts, conflict diamonds and the geographies of resource wars, ethno-territoriality and ethnic conflict. Low growth rates; growth shocks or declines. Ethnic or religious cultural identity and political claims. Control over oil fields, and the profits they generate, as central to both the earlier war between sudan and south sudan rebels, and current violence in south sudan. Turkish kurds marching in 2014 in protest of turkey"s refusal to assistant kurdish communities surrounded by isis in syria. A brief history of ethno-political conflict in fiji. Roughly split between ethnic fijians and indo-fijians demographically, though ethnic fijians constitute narrow majority following coups in 1980"s. Nearly three decades of ethno-political conflict regard political representation, control of land, citizenship, etc. Two coups in 1987 by ethnic fijian nationalists against power-sharing government.
